The American people have been exercising their right to vote for the president for more than two centuries, and yet that constitutional right continues to be diluted with each election.

Over the past 223 years, the process for voting has changed very little. It's time for a change. It has become quite apparent that the past several presidential elections have given great cause to believe that our election system is quite flawed. With so much human intervention, the process is open to fraud and inaccuracies on many levels.

Our elected officials spend millions of dollars campaigning, yet on Election Day none of us really has any assurance that our vote was accurately counted. We lack a national standard for verifying voter identity (not all states require photo identification); we lack a national standard for registering voters, collecting and counting the votes. We don't have a single national repository in which to cast our votes.

Why do we need to limit ourselves to one national presidential voting day in November? Spreading the voting period out over an extended period should eliminate the need for absentee voting and early voting which have opened us to fraud and inaccuracies.

We should not have more than one way to capture and count a vote. We live in an age filled with highly sophisticated technology. Let's use it.

We deserve to receive an electronic confirmation from a single national database, by using a unique voter ID number that verifies that our vote has been counted, immediately after casting our vote.

Finally, every U.S. citizen should be held to the exact same voter registration and identification verification standard.